Nov. 21. 1831: Silk workers' strike in Lyon, France district de la Croix Rousse. The whole city rises in insurrection when Nationale guard kills several workers.

Nov. 22. 1936: Spain: Over 500,000 attend the funeral of the anarchist Durruti in Barcelona. 1963: Death of Aldous Huxley, British pacifist author of "Brave New World," Hollywood. His last request, which was granted, was for an injection of LSD.

Nov. 23. 1170 BC: First recorded strike for better working conditions and pay takes place in Egypt.

Nov. 24. 1970: Fourteen American students meet with Vietnamese in Hanoi to plan "People's Peace Treaty." 1990: Six Marine reservists refuse to report for Persian Gulf duty.

Nov. 25. 1969: Pres. Nixon declares the US will not engage in bacteriological warfare. At the time, as it turned out, the US was actually testing such agents on its own citizens, unsuspecting American people.

Nov. 26. 1920: Makhno's anarchist commanders in the Crimea, fresh from victories over General Wrangel's right-wing White army, met with Trotsky's left-wing Red Army under a flag of truce. They were seized and immediately shot.

Nov. 27. 1900: US troops coax information from Filipino town president by forcing salt water down his throat from 100-gallon tank. Then they burned the town.

Nov. 28. 1960: Richard Wright dies in exile, in Paris. Postal worker, novelist and short-story writer, among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son" (1940). First given opportunity to write through the Federal Writer's Project. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and was executive secretary of the local John Reed Club of leftist writers and authors of Chicago. Left the Communist Party in 1944 because of personal and political differences and settled in Paris.

Nov. 29. 1864: Sand Creek, Colorado: A US army regiment under Col. J. M. Chivington (a Methodist pastor), acting on orders from Colorado's Governor, John Evans, and ignoring a white surrender flag, massacres sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped under a US flag, in one of the most brutal atrocities in US history. The Indians had been ordered away from the protection of Fort Lyon four days before, with the promise that they would be safe. Virtually all of the 500 victims, mostly women and children, were tortured and scalped; women's genitals were cut out and stuck on poles.

Nov. 30. 1624: Richard Cornish executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law. That sucked.

Dec. 1. 1891: International Peace Bureau launched, Berne, Switzerland. 1997: A silent march of women, protesting conscription, is met by a police attack and the arrest of 37 women. Khartoum, Sudan.

Dec. 2. 1983: Convention prohibiting inhumane weapons comes into force. Widely ignored.

Dec. 3. 1964: Police arrest 773 to end Free Speech Movement occupation of Sproul Hall on the University of California-Berkeley Campus. A student strike the next day closes the school.

Dec. 4. 1867: Grange is organized to protect farmers' interests. 1981: Pres. Ronald Reagan authorizes CIA to conduct domestic surveillance. The CIA charter originally banned domestic surveillance.